Ruth Scobie
@ruthscobie.bsky.social
Mostly eighteenth-century; she/her. Writing a book: NOVELS AND THE RISE OF CELEBRITY, which is not about the rise of the novel
Accidentally bought Goth potatoes
November 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Accidentally bought Goth potatoes
Look at this cat I'm catsitting, he looks like Percy Bysshe Shelley
August 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Look at this cat I'm catsitting, he looks like Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mary Robinson already making fun of AI bros in 1799
August 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Mary Robinson already making fun of AI bros in 1799
This is the last page of the first Penguin edition of Virginia Woolf's Orlando
[Pixies voice]
GOT ME A BLOOMSBURY AH-HA-HA-HO
SLICING UP MARS BARS AH-HA-HA-HO
[Pixies voice]
GOT ME A BLOOMSBURY AH-HA-HA-HO
SLICING UP MARS BARS AH-HA-HA-HO
July 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This is the last page of the first Penguin edition of Virginia Woolf's Orlando
[Pixies voice]
GOT ME A BLOOMSBURY AH-HA-HA-HO
SLICING UP MARS BARS AH-HA-HA-HO
[Pixies voice]
GOT ME A BLOOMSBURY AH-HA-HA-HO
SLICING UP MARS BARS AH-HA-HA-HO
The vet told me that Doris "has the kidneys of a much younger cat" so obviously I said "well I'll tell her she must give them back", and he earnestly replied "no I just meant for comparison" in case you ever wondered what those Bluesky commenters are like in real life
March 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The vet told me that Doris "has the kidneys of a much younger cat" so obviously I said "well I'll tell her she must give them back", and he earnestly replied "no I just meant for comparison" in case you ever wondered what those Bluesky commenters are like in real life
It's (almost, tentatively, unreliably) something like Spring?
March 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
It's (almost, tentatively, unreliably) something like Spring?
Haggis is fine; I'm just here for the rumbledethumps
January 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Haggis is fine; I'm just here for the rumbledethumps
Extremely jetlagged in Singapore. It is 31 degrees and stormy. A sped-up version of Silent Night is playing. Anyway here's a fake living room with a picture of Carl Linnaeus in it
December 15, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Extremely jetlagged in Singapore. It is 31 degrees and stormy. A sped-up version of Silent Night is playing. Anyway here's a fake living room with a picture of Carl Linnaeus in it
I could write something about myself to greet new followers, but I don't want to, so instead have a murmuration from earlier this evening
November 10, 2024 at 7:00 PM
I could write something about myself to greet new followers, but I don't want to, so instead have a murmuration from earlier this evening
The actual best thing about living in Oxford is St Giles Fair, which is 400 years old, closes the whole city centre for two days, and offers unrivalled weeknight opportunities to vomit on St John's College
September 9, 2024 at 7:13 PM
The actual best thing about living in Oxford is St Giles Fair, which is 400 years old, closes the whole city centre for two days, and offers unrivalled weeknight opportunities to vomit on St John's College
Right & Wrong; or, The Kinsmen of Naples (1803): perfectly serviceable four volume Gothic-y novel
Reader:
Right & Wrong; or, The Kinsmen of Naples (1803): this bit's set in Wales
Reader:
Right & Wrong; or The Kinsmen of Naples (1803):
Reader:
Right & Wrong; or, The Kinsmen of Naples (1803): this bit's set in Wales
Reader:
Right & Wrong; or The Kinsmen of Naples (1803):
July 11, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Right & Wrong; or, The Kinsmen of Naples (1803): perfectly serviceable four volume Gothic-y novel
Reader:
Right & Wrong; or, The Kinsmen of Naples (1803): this bit's set in Wales
Reader:
Right & Wrong; or The Kinsmen of Naples (1803):
Reader:
Right & Wrong; or, The Kinsmen of Naples (1803): this bit's set in Wales
Reader:
Right & Wrong; or The Kinsmen of Naples (1803):
OK let's try this again
July 4, 2024 at 6:44 AM
OK let's try this again
Inside you there are two Dorises
June 20, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Inside you there are two Dorises
Sewed a little Reynard preaching to the birds, from this medieval illustration that looks like a Disney background character
June 20, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Sewed a little Reynard preaching to the birds, from this medieval illustration that looks like a Disney background character
Made a little Reynard for a friend
May 27, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Made a little Reynard for a friend
Everyone looks at these peonies I bought for six quid in a Tesco Metro
May 14, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Everyone looks at these peonies I bought for six quid in a Tesco Metro
Sad story, but really pleasing lettering
February 18, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Sad story, but really pleasing lettering
Strega Nona embroidery
February 17, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Strega Nona embroidery
Happy Halloween! from the time my cat confronted her own Gothic doppelgänger and also that time she was the Muse of Tragedy
October 31, 2023 at 8:41 PM
Happy Halloween! from the time my cat confronted her own Gothic doppelgänger and also that time she was the Muse of Tragedy
Stitched this thing, don't know what it is
October 21, 2023 at 6:14 PM
Stitched this thing, don't know what it is
A gift from my gran, somehow already giving strong Irish Catholic aesthetics even before I discovered the helpful note folded inside
October 12, 2023 at 7:21 PM
A gift from my gran, somehow already giving strong Irish Catholic aesthetics even before I discovered the helpful note folded inside
the unspeakable horrors of the junk mail folder
October 2, 2023 at 2:33 PM
the unspeakable horrors of the junk mail folder
I think everyone who follows me on here is an academic, but I'm not doing any research at the moment so here's a picture of Doris
September 18, 2023 at 7:18 PM
I think everyone who follows me on here is an academic, but I'm not doing any research at the moment so here's a picture of Doris